Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-31
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 81, 1887
Malone and Sherman.

Malone and sherman.
Our Washington correspondent gave
in yesterdays issue Of the Dispatch the
spcculations of a gentleman whom he de-
scribes as shrewd politician, in regard
10 The expected moyemYts Of SHEHNAN
and B1A,NE in their efforts to secure the
next Republican nomination for the
presidency. These specu'ations were
interesting, Everybody reads such
guesses.
Nevertheless, all srecula.ions to the
contrary notwithstanding, it is just as
certain that Mr.. BLAINE VIII he the next
Republican nominee for President OF the
United States as that Mr.. CnrYFlhNo
will be the next Democratic nominee for
the same office. "No man can tell what
q day may bring forth, and Of course
nobody can forecast the future with alb
solute confidence thst the outcome
will be the fulflmcEt Of the predlc-
ton. Mr.. BLAr,r or Nir. CLEVELAND, or
both of them might be led 10y circum-
stances vet in the womb of the future
10 refuse to allow their names to Zoe used
in the national conventions of the two
parties. But these are mere Iotcntali-
ties or possibilities The chances are,
ten to onc-not TO say hundredto one
that Mr.. BLNSa and Alr. CLEyELaND
Will in the year lSSS be rival nominees
for the Office of President. Both are
strong men with the people. Each is
the strongest man I'm his own party.
Mr.. SHERMAN S pretended friends are
many of them not in earnest MrRr
HA1srEAD, the leading SHERMAN editor
is at heart a BlANr man, We suspect.
Not that he will provo false to },r. saEH-
MAN. but that he cannot possibly expert
ence any enthusiasm in the cause OF
politica! iceberg, AMI cannot help
being more or less influenced
by the magnetism Of BLAINE. As
TO any recruits that MALONE can
add to SHEENAN's forces in the Republic
can National Convention, We need not
saw much. We never heard it main
tanned by anybody that MAHoNE Lad any
strength outside OF bis own state. His
influence here is due to the fact
that through his personal followers
he is kept in communication with
the negroes, who constitute the ma
jority of the Republican party
in Virginia. He has no such control
over the negroes of any other southern
State and there is no possible oppor-
tunity for hin to obtain it, Whatever
support he may be able TO give to 5HEn-
MAN in the next Republican National
Convention must therefore come from
Virginia.
The National Convention OF Republic
can Clubs gave no uncertain sound. Mr.
Corr, of West Virginia, whose STATE
borders on SHErNN's for hundreds O
miles. was recognized ia that convention
ms BLAINE man, and applaudcd to th
echo as such. he declined to accep
the place for which SisrIAN's friend
claim that he was defeated.
IT, when he was Secretary Of In
Treasury, and had thousands OF Ireasur.
officials working for him, Mr. SHaHNA
could not muster delegates enough j
the Republican National Convention t
make him a formidable rival OF tn
other aspirants, what chance does II
stand now, when, shon OF all of,icii
patronage, he must rely upon his merits
His "merits Having nothing but h
merits TO aid him he IS poor indeed.
Has the reader forgotten that y
GARFIELD, from Mr.. SHrHAN's ow
State. was brought forward in 1850 rs
dark horse, and received the nomin
ton of a convention in which, when
BEGAN its sessions, Mr.. SHERMAN la
more supporters than he viii have
the Republican National Convention
next year? Ohio did not stand /
SHERMAN in 1880 because he never was
tavOrtc IN his own ottie.
Recollect, too, that Mr.. HAYES,
Ohio. was nominated oser SHERMAN
1876, though SHERMAN had far more 7
putation in the country at large than i
HAYEs.
And do not forge, flat as Mr. Hay
became President in consequence
having made u successful race for &c
ernor of Ohio, Mr.. FoRAKER cannot b
hone that he may DO called upon to p
in 1883 the role which HAYES played
1876.
But there is better reason than n
HOMES circumscribed influence or q
OF the other facts We have mentioned
pronouncing Mr.. SHERMAN notn
more than a dummy candidate. /
warmest friends and Sincerest support
must know that the door OF the WI
House is forever closed and barr
against all the men who had hand
stealing the presidency in 1876.
pretend TO believe that any such n
can possibly compete with the man of {
white plume is more than the aver.
northern Republican is willing to DO.
Race Prejudice.
The State Of Georgia has withheld
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